I used to be excited about becoming an adult. I still am, I think. But this excitement has now been coupled with an underlying fear. While I still have a few years to suss out exactly what it is that I want to do after I graduate, 2013 will be my second year of university, which means that I’ll have to start thinking about what I want to major in and the general field that I want to get into.The summer before starting university, I thought that I knew what I wanted to do in my career. I thought ...

Pack up those winter woes and start counting down the days until summer, because spring is finally here! To accompany those last few winter mornings and help welcome in the sun, here's a list of ten Kiwi songs you should check out this month.Leave a comment below and let me know which song you liked the most, or which song you'd like to see added to the list. Happy September! 1. Follow the Sun, Evermore Next month, Evermore will be releasing their fourth studio album, titled ‘Follow the Sun’. Th...

When community-based counselling service Home & Family Counselling approached us at the start of the year, we could not pass up the opportunity to assist. While we had made cash donations to support not-for-profits in the past, this time, we provided Home & Family Counselling recruitment services, completely free of charge. Our Auckland-based Consultant Mandy Mella took on the job, and for two weeks she worked alongside the not-for-profit to find them a permanent staff member for their p...

When I was four years old, I wanted to be a professional tennis player and work part-time at Bakers Delight. At ten, I wanted to be a novelist who also just so happened to be an on-call astronaut for NASA. At thirteen, I wanted to work for Donald Trump and compete in The Amazing Race. This year, I’ll be turning eighteen. Although I now have an overarching goal to pursue a career in the film industry, the underlying truth is that I’m still very much ‘undecided’. There are still days when I wake u...

First Foundation is an educational trust that aims to help financially disadvantaged youth by awarding scholarships to those who may not otherwise be in the position to pursue tertiary education. The First Foundation Scholarship is based on a four-year programme that includes financial assistance, a mentor, and paid part-time work experience with a scholarship partner. In 2011 I was awarded the First Foundation Scholarship through the Madison Group. This particular scholarship was in memory of R...